Question: Hi,

I am concerned I may be pregnant and if I'm not, I would like to know how to resume taking the contraceptive pill cilest.

The background is that I've just returned from a month holiday with my boyfriend where we were moving round/doing hikes etc. I had my period and started taking the pill as normal for the first 5 days. I then missed pills for 2 days before losing the pack altogether. Due to being in non English speaking countries, I did not seek to get replacement pills and stupidly continued to have unprotected sex. I had irregular bleeding 2 days following my first failures to take the pill. I expected my period on Wednesday last week but this is now late.

I will do a pregnancy test today but my questions are:

- if I'm not pregnant today, when can I safely start taking cilest again? As I have recently had sex (yesterday) I am concerned that a pregnancy test today may not show an accurate result. Therefore if I do restart taking cilest and find out at a later time, that I'm pregnant will this affect the pregnancy? Had I been following my usual routine, I would be due to take cilest again from this Monday.

Thanks